The former federal prosecutor at the center of alleged grand jury misconduct in a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case against a group of anti-ICE protesters has said she should be heard in any sanctions proceeding or further contempt probe that may be ordered, as pending motions for both put her "professional conduct and integrity squarely before the court."
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Ex-Ill. Prosecutor Wants In On ICE Protest Sanctions Fight

By Celeste Bott

The former federal prosecutor at the center of alleged grand jury misconduct in a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case against a group of anti-ICE protesters has said she should be heard in any sanctions proceeding or further contempt probe that may be ordered, as pending motions for both put her "professional conduct and integrity squarely before the court."

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Jurisdictional Skepticism Puts Eli Lilly Appeal On Thin Ice

By Lauraann Wood

Eli Lilly & Co.'s bid to unwind the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's refusal to classify a developing obesity treatment as a biological product appears to suffer from jurisdictional issues that might sink the company's appeal before its resolved, a Seventh Circuit judge signaled Thursday.

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AGs Push Congress To Regulate AI But Not Preempt State Laws

By Brian Steele

Nearly half the attorneys general in the United States implored Congress in a letter Thursday to "immediately" regulate the artificial intelligence industry and prohibit federal action from preempting state laws, telling U.S. House and Senate leaders that national security is at stake.

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Ill. Justices Mull Closed Arb. For Chicago Police Misconduct

By Celeste Bott

Illinois Supreme Court justices wrestled Thursday with whether the city of Chicago's history of publicly adjudicating allegations of the most serious police misconduct can establish a statewide public policy requiring open proceedings, while questioning a city police union on why transparency and promoting trust in law enforcement don't justify public attendance.

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Ill. Justices Say Uber Can't Arbitrate Wrongful Death Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Uber can't compel arbitration of wrongful death claims arising from a fatal crash, finding that a widow's separate user agreement with the company did not apply to the estate's wrongful death claims.

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REGIONAL POWERHOUSES

Illinois Powerhouse: Mayer Brown

By Tracey Read

Over the past year, Mayer Brown LLP advised on multiple financings for Chicago O'Hare International Airport, represented the Chicago Transit Authority on multibillion-dollar rail infrastructure improvements and provided counsel to brokerage firm R.J. O'Brien in its merger with financial services network StoneX Group Inc., valued at over $1 billion.

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LITIGATION

Pipeline Groups Say Enbridge Ruling Weakens Tribal Deals

By Corey Rothauser

Two oil and gas industry groups have urged the Seventh Circuit to reconsider part of its ruling that Enbridge Energy is trespassing on Wisconsin tribal lands, arguing that the decision could make long-term pipeline agreements with tribes less reliable.

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Labcorp Inks $2.3M Deal To Resolve Multistate Data Breach

By Carla Baranauckas

Labcorp will pay nearly $2.3 million and adopt data security changes under a multistate settlement resolving investigations into a 2019 breach at its former debt collection vendor, a group of state attorneys general announced Thursday.

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Seyfarth Failed To Guard Client Data From Hack, Suit Alleges

By Lauren Berg

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on Thursday was hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court accusing it of failing to protect its current and former clients' personal information after the Chicago-based law firm this month disclosed a recent data breach.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

4 Tips On Expert Gatekeeping From J&J Talc Deal

Johnson & Johnson's successful campaign to exclude plaintiff-side oncologist testimony about whether its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer, which prompted the recent resolution of 70,000 claims, offers lessons on how product liability defendants can reshape risk calculation by rigorously applying expert admissibility rules, say attorneys at Hollingsworth.

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Series

Playing Bid Whist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

As a child, I viewed bid whist as a family tradition and a source of friendly card game competition, but as a lawyer, I see it as a tool that has helped me cultivate skills like communication, teamwork, risk assessment and composure, says Keyonn Pope at Riley Safer.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Akin Gump

Arnold & Porter

Asher Gittler

Beveridge & Diamond

Bottaro Law Firm

Brabners LLP

Browne Jacobson LLP

Burr & Forman

Campbell Johnston

Carpmaels & Ransford

Cheronis & Parente

Clarke Willmott

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Law Offices

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Cotsirilos Poulos

Covington & Burling

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Demeo LLP

Dorsey & Whitney

Duane Morris

Dudley DeBosier

Dunn Isaacson Rhee

Eckert Seamans

Emery Reddy

Federman & Sherwood

Fell Law PC

Fish & Richardson

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Greenberg Traurig

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Hollingsworth LLP

Hooper Hathaway

Hughes & Coleman

Husch Blackwell

Jenner & Block

John Foy & Associates

Jones Day

Kanji & Katzen

Keches Law Group

Keller Rohrback

Kennedys Law LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Kramer LLP

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Lowenstein Sandler

Maslon LLP

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

Mills & Reeve

Morrison & Foerster

O'Melveny & Myers

Paris Smith LLP

Paul Weiss

Pinsent Masons

Polsinelli PC

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

RWK Goodman

Rainwater Holt

Reed Smith

Riley Safer

Russell-Cooke

Schlam Stone

Selendy Gay

Seyfarth Shaw

Silver Golub

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Spencer West LLP

Steptoe LLP

Strauss Borrelli

Sullivan & Cromwell

Taft Stettinius

Tarter Krinsky

Venable LLP

Ventura Law (Danbury, CT)

Weil Gotshal

Whalen Law Office

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Wilson Sonsini

Withersworldwide

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Petroleum Institute Inc.

Anthropic PBC

AstraZeneca PLC

BTI Consulting Group Inc.

Block Inc.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp.

Cardinal Health Inc.

Cloudflare Inc.

Compass Lexecon LLC

Coupang, Inc.

Delta Dental Plans Association

Duke University

Eli Lilly & Co.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

Enterprise Holdings Inc.

Glencore PLC

GoDaddy Inc.

Google LLC

IMDb.com Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Kellogg Co.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Line 5 LLC

Liquid Energy Pipeline Association

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

Lumen Technologies Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nektar Therapeutics

New York Civil Liberties Union

News Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Pfizer Inc.

Proof

RELX PLC

Red Bull GmbH

Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television & Radio Artists

Sears Holdings Corp.

Skydance Media LLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

StoneX Group Inc.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

The Hershey Co.

The J. M. Smucker Co.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The Travelers Cos. Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Miami

Walmart Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Attorney General's Office

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe

California Attorney General's Office

California Civil Rights Department

Chicago Department of Aviation

Chicago Transit Authority

Companies House

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Financial Conduct Authority

Food and Drug Administration

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Montana Department of Revenue

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court